"I know I speak for Fyodor when I say if we could figure out how to fit [our wives] Larisa and Elizabeth in that seat, that is who we would take with us", said Fischer in jest at a media briefing on April 19, clarifying that their third seat will carry cargo for the ISS.

Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos (left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) answer questions from the press at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Facility in Star City, Russia. Russian Federation last launched a crew of two in 2003, when Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Ed Lu launched to the space station from Kazakhstan.

Nespoli will then join the two this coming July, when he flies to the ISS on a three-person Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft.

Another Russian-American duo, Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lu, undertook the last two-man mission to the ISS, in April 2003.

"We are looking forward to intensifying our cooperation on a positive agenda, what the European Union and China can do together for the benefit not only of our citizens, but also of the world", Mogherini said.

Fischer and Yurchikhin are scheduled to remain aboard the Station until September, along with Whitson, whose stay aboard the Station was extended into Expedition 52 by an agreement recently signed between NASA and Roscosmos.

Fischer, a first-time space flier, and Yurchikhin, a veteran of four spaceflights, will spend more than 4 months aboard the orbiting laboratory before returning to Earth in early September.

Thus the overall station crew complement of astronauts and cosmonauts increases to five - from the US, Russia and France - representing their respective space agencies and countries.

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It's rare for the United States or Russian Federation to launch a crew of just two astronauts.

Fischer and Yurchikhin were the first to receive permission from Roscosmos to name their Soyuz - "Argo".

A man shouts anti-government slogans during a protest in Caracas , Venezuela, Thursday, April 20, 2017. Why the court issued the ruling 16 years later, at the peak of anti-Maduro protests, was unclear.

He sounded the warning on Wednesday from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan , docked in Yokosuka, Japan. At the time of a previous missile test by North Korea on April 5 US satellites observed an increased activity in Sinpo.

Brent crude futures were up 19 cents at $55.08 a barrel at 1331 GMT, while US crude futures were up 15 cents at $52.56. Recently, OPEC published a report stating that the group has cut output for March beyond the agreed amounts.

Those showers will linger until midmorning Friday but scattered showers will remain throughout the day with highs near 67. However, nothing too long-lasting, with indications of modest rain amounts between one-tenth to one-quarter of an inch.

Canada is pushing back over US President Donald Trump's criticism that its protectionist dairy policies are hurting US farmers. Earlier Thursday, Freeland spoke at an event in Toronto where she said that, broadly, she feels "very good" about the U.S.

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